Improvement in ice-pitchers



T. 0; SMITH. Ice-Pitcher.

No. 207,910. Paten'ted Sept. 10, I878.

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THOMAS 0. SMITH, OF GREEN POINT, NElV YORK.

IMPROVEMENT lN ICE-PITCHERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 207,910, dated September 10, 1578; application filed August 8, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS 0. SMITH, of Green Point, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ice-Pitchers, of which the following is a specification:

Figure l is a top view of my improved pitcher. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, part being broken away to show the construction.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish improved ice-pitchers which shall be so made that as large a piece of ice can pass in through their months as their bodies will hold, and which will prevent the ice from being poured out with the water.

Theinvention will first be described in connection with the drawing, and then pointed out in the claim.

A represents the body of the pitcher, which is made cylindrical in form, as shown in Fig. 2, so that as large a piece of ice as its said body will hold can be passed in through its mouth. This construction of the ice-pitcher with its interior of uniform size will prevent the great amount of breakage complained of by hotel-keepers, restaurant-kecpers, and others, caused by attempts to force into the pitchers larger pieces of ice than can pass through their months.

The front of the upper part or mouth of the pitcher, in front of the handle 0, is extended outward slightly, to serve as a spout, B, for pouring out the water.

Upon the inner surface of the lower part of the spout B are formed two lugs or flanges, l), the inner edges of which are concaved to correspond with the curvature of the inner surface of the body A, and their adjacent ends do not quite meet, as shown. in Fig. 1, a space being left between them for the water to flow out through.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- An ice-pitcher made with a cylindrical bod y, A, and provided with two. lugs or flanges, 1), upon the inner surface of the lower part of its spout 13,substa1'1tially as herein shown and described.

THOMAS 0. SMITH. Witnesses:

JAMES T. GRAHAM, 0. Snnewron. 

